The amorous bigotte : with the second part of Tegue O Divelly. A comedy acted by Their Majesty's servants
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Type of record: Book
Title: The amorous bigotte : with the second part of Tegue O Divelly. A comedy acted by Their Majesty's servants
Other titles: Second part of Tegue O Divelly; Tegue O Divelly
Classmark: BC Lt SHA
Creator(s): Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)
Additional creator(s): Knapton, James (1738) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1690
Language: English
Size and medium: 8 unnumbered pages, 50 pages, 2 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282927
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001627199705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First edition.
Another issue of the same year has bigot spelled "bigottee".
"The Lancashire witches, and Tegue O Divelly the Irish priest appeared.. about Sept. 1681, and was followed by a sequel, The amorous bigotte, with the second part of Tegue O Divelly at D. L. about March 1690." (Nicoll).
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-G⁴ H².
Prologue. Spoken by Mrs. Butler. Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Bracegirdle.
Dedication to "Charles E. of Shrewsbury, &c".
With advertisement of plays published by James Knapton.
BHL 01 has 17 items/plays in two volumes. Volume 1 has 8 items and volume 2 has 9 items.
BHL 01: fifteenth item in bound volumes of 17 items.
BHL 01 (vol 2) bound with: The history of Timon of Athens, 1678. /Thomas Shadwell.
Indexed in: Wing S2835; New CBEL.
Indexed in: ESTC
Indexed in: Woodward & McManaway,
Indexed in: Wrenn IV,
Indexed in: Nicoll, History of English Drama,
Additional description
Signature A4 is bound in front of A2, in error
Features
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 01: excerpt from booksellers catalogue pasted onto front pastedown of vol 1.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 01: (vol 1 & 2): Nineteenth-century blue morocco, gold tooled on cover and spines, red marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 01: Given from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022. Excerpt from bookseller's catalogue on front pastedown of volume 1 explains that Mr Lacy of theatrical renown collected these original editions of Shadwell's plays over 30 years. MS. annotations by bookseller on front flyleaf of volume 1, including possible price 6/6/-.
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